Gd Flashcards
Perhaps we might remind him gently after his leave. Shall we set a
soft deadline on August 15
Pre-season
showdown
David Beckham is already dreaming of a World Cup final
showdown with his Old Trafford pal Juan Sebastian Veron
Staff honoured for going
extra mile
Louise took wing
for America
Water passes through vents with each
flush and is doused with fragrant liquid
He doused the car with
petrol and set it on fire
At the airfield, chaos reigned as rescue crews equipped with fire extinguishers doused the flames emanating
from the downed fighter
He sprung into action, grabbing the lab s fire blanket and dousing the flames that were
playing across the workbench
It was only as the fire brigade doused the final embers in my gutted home that I wondered if perhaps the
invite had been a subtle Valentine s message after all
We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample
over people so that they can get a million dollars
This is indeed regrettable, because politicians who act only in their own partisan,
self-seeking interest are doing nothing other than letting their country down
Vehicular access
to
It is an odd question, but it goes to the heart of a debate over how much spending power is
wielded by workers
To say a final goodbye to his friends before
serving life in prison
Their crime was greatly premeditated. Their planning was
extensive. Their preparation gathered pace in January and February
Sales of savings plans will be hit as brokers are prohibited from earning commission on long-term
policies upfront in move to clean up a business plagued by persistent complaints of unscrupulous sales practices
The ban will hit a cutthroat insurance
savings plan industry marketed to both expatriate and local investors
The work fell between two
stools, being neither genuinely popular nor truly scholarly
We seem to fall between two stools because the modern premises that we would like to move into are far too expensive and the older mill buildings tend to have water
gushing in through the roof
The insurance firm is able to recoup these costs by imposing minimum payment terms and premium
lock-ins on policyholders
The new rules mirror regulatory changes in Europe that have swept away
commission-paying products in favour of fee-based compensation
The rules also put the onus on insurers to develop products that do not create misaligned
incentives between intermediaries and their clients
Staff can begin liquidating holdings after three years, but may then be subject to a
tax clawback, on a sliding scale
The sex was so ambiguous and romantic that none but a
prude could find it objectionable
People tend to think of the Victorians as
prudes but this dress is quite revealing
He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the
deserving and never of the idle
Such an arrangement has its historical
roots in the transition from HSSC to HSMC
The BTB modules are intercultural and interdisciplinary, where translation is considered the paradigm of
mediation, not only from one language to another but also from one culture to another
While these modules are inherently
responsive to market trends, they also aim to think ahead in expectation of users’ needs and to foster a new and constructive partnership with the industry
Students are well versed in not only language and terminology but also the
body of business and sociocultural knowledge embodied therein
The stony desolation of
the desert
What once had been a city was a desert now, a vast
field of emptiness and desolation
All around them desolation and destruction saturated
the crumbled and falling buildings on each side of the street
In choked desolation, she
watched him leave
A solitary singer tramps through a winter landscape, seeing in the frozen
streams and bare trees a reflection of his own loneliness and desolation
The incidents that had occurred during the past few days only served to increase her sense of
desolation and loneliness
Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which
chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer
Too many of them were standing around as though fielding were merely a
tedious chore to be undertaken before you got your turn at bat
This seems strange to some, but why should we not make something fun out of a
necessary chore
The collision triggered a fiery, midair explosion that rained
burning debris over an elementary school playground
We all herded into
a storage room
Within minutes, anxious parents began streaming to the school in jogging
suits, business clothes, house-coats
That is too much calculus
for my brain
He gargled with
alcohol for toothache
His pale eyes were frosted with
sun glare and his lips scaly as snakeskin
An overbearing,
ill-tempered brute
She then describes the Rat personality, Charming, extremely easy to get along with, hard working, has a
disarming manner even when confronting someone
Although to say the man was a big influence on me musically would be a gross
understatement, I will personally remember Piggy best for his disarming demeanour
He gave her a disarming
smile
He came back empty-handed and
crestfallen
The spy peered
furtively through the bushes
People have to compete with each other for elbow room and
breathing space, both of which are in short supply
The deteriorating quality and the shrinking greenery around the city adds
weight to the proposal to provide it a little more elbow room or breathing space
The audience pattered
applause
Physicians advised sparing
use of ointment
An estimated 150000 commuters passed through its
turnstiles every day, many of them on their way to work on Wall Street
Her fingers were grained with
chalk dust
It goes against the grain to tell
outright lies
I abhor unsightly
blemishes, so I shun semicolons and parentheses
I had no inkling of electronic marvels just around the corner that were about to
revolutionize the act of writing
Never have so many Americans written so
profusely and with so few inhibitions
Word processors are a rare gift, enabling them to fuss
endlessly with their sentences
A contented mind is a
perpetual feast
She is mature, even-tempered and good-natured, displaying a cheerful and kind
disposition that makes her popular among her peers
Should you have any enquiries, we would be
pleased to oblige
This tools celebrates
simplicity, but a clever writer can make the simple complex
He stares into
space
Teenagers rehearse a request for a later curfew, or
an increase in allowance
We call it procrastination or
writer s block
They resorted to dilatory
tactics
Like Batman, they cinch up a
utility belt loaded with handy tools
They write stories of national and international interest, under excruciating
deadline pressure, against formidable competition and with the outcome of event in doubt. A Herculean task
The famous journalist and author was
awestruck
If you piece together a puzzle, you
benefit from the image on the box
The match was a cliffhanger
right up to the final whistle
You have hogged
the stove for too long
The Premier League s curtain
raiser
The graveyard
shift
I wanted to be upfront
with you
Great to see you,
old bean
When I last spoke to her yesterday she was full of beans, very cheerful and
chirpy, so I deduce from that that all was going well
A bean counter will say you should respond by cutting in other places, which usually means
shifting the burden onto other people, especially your employees
As a small business owner, you are not only the head honcho, but also the bean counter, chief salesman, IT
boffin, tax specialist and marketing guru too
The novel has found its way into films,
cartoons, and even computer games
The MacBook range has caught a lot of flak over the years for being expensive and a case
of style over substance
After the meeting, they left by a side
entrance to avoid taking media questions
The influx of funds boosted the Hong Kong dollar to the
upper end of its trading band
Under the beg to the US dollar, the HKMA is
obliged to intervene
Investors should be careful as the hot money may leave as many of these foreign investors are
eyeing quick profits only
The recent stock market rally may not last long. Local investors should not blindly follow the hot money and rush into the market or they may
have their fingers burned
Look haggard and
tattered
I am swarmed
with work
Steamed pork
patties
No
sweat
Let s smarten you
up
He skimmed money
off
When your automated teller machines divide and arrange your money before
coughing it up, they are all using partition theory
Milk money from the
company
She warns that even if the December text is agreed to, it still offers a raw deal to developing countries, and would result in a host of
legal and bureaucratic red tape
Women academics continue to get a raw
deal
One bitten
twice shy
March winds and April showers bring forth
May flowers
An anonymous note like that would
creep me out
An empty bucket sounds
very loud
Empty barrels make
most noise
The pictures do not do it
justice
The gruesome murder case in which a man is accused of killing his parents and dismembering their bodies will have to restart with a new, bigger jury after a judge
excused the foreman, who said he was too upset by the evidence to continue
A juror notified the judge that she had received a doctor s note saying she was suffering anxiety and neurosis and that further
exposure to the trial could make her situation worse
Japanese economy shrinks 6 per cent, most since tsunami, as tax
rise bites
The sales tax increase took a heavy toll on household spending, stoking fears that any rebound may be too modest to
sustain a solid recovery
The world a third-largest economy shrank an
annualised 6.8 per cent in the second quarter
External demand added 1.1 percentage points to growth, after shaving 0.2 percentage points
off growth in the first quarter
Opponents also draw attention to the risks of elective Cesarean delivery to the mother and fetus during the initial
procedure and for later pregnancies
The risk for infection and other surgical complications appear to be greater in women undergoing repeat cesarean delivery compared to those who are successful
with a vaginal birth after Cesarean delivery
A tree crashed down a private slope and killed a heavily
pregnant woman
The victim s baby was delivered by emergency
caesarean section
The remains of the tree are as crispy as
biscuits, showing serious fungi infection
Solicitors voted to
unseat Law Society president Ambrose Lam
He was stony-faced
after the meeting
He repeated the call for
unity in a later statement
He fought back
tears as they announced their victory
Sadness over the grotesque political interference by outside
machinery throughout the process despite this being an internal matter
The results showed that the majority of the
proxy votes were against Lam
Barack Obama called for cooler
heads to prevail
A hardware
shop
Ampersand,
symbol for and
The enforced camaraderie of
office life
My bag of
tricks
Debate rages
on
The masses insist, until justice
is served
The extension of the railway is
up and running
A computer
buff
To smash it into
bits
He was little more than a
drudge around the house
We tried to forestall our
business rivals
She forestalled a
conflict by sending her husband away
If you are well prepared, you can take every emergency
in your stride
Hong Kong political reform consultation was dominated by
orchestrated bloc submissions
The settlement rules could put a damper on the enthusiasm of overseas investors, most of them
favouring a conservative stance
The report reflected the views
collated
At no stage did any of these worthies think it necessary to do some fact-checking before
besmirching the reputation of a former cabinet officer
Chow also brushed off
suggestions that he had received money for his role
Death is mercifully
quick when a rocket hits an airliner mid-flight
We have grown too
proud
Noam Chomsky sounded a note of
caution in relation to the implications of generative grammar for translation
Their signatures should tally with their
names on the register
There are undoubtedly chefs who believe reviewers go out with the express intention of
ripping into a restaurant, but that does not tally with my experience
They say his actions, which destabilise, do not
tally with the talk
You have quite a
glow on your face
I would better stay
on my toe
They are on the chopping
board
No
sweat
He had not joined a gang or
acquired a rap sheet
There had probably been a few more crimes added to her
rap sheet since then as well
You never know when that kid with a rap sheet a mile long will
circumvent the system yet again because of a judge s ruling
I would be petty if
I say no
I can save my
breath
Give you a small
earful
Your authority will be undermined if
I fail
A molten
cake
IT is my forte, but it is a bit
constraining
You are cut out for
the job
Where are you rushing
off to
Hong Kong Customs believed that smugglers had attempted to use circuitous
routings to evade Customs crackdown
Cigarette
contraband
These descriptions are just
caricatures, and nobody is all Virgo
They expect nothing less than perfect of
themselves, which tends to get extended towards criticism of others
If they can gain a sense of perspective, however, Virgo has a gentle, self-depreciating sense of humour and makes
extremely amusing, pleasant company
They can be accused of being unfeeling and ungenerous, too
workmanlike and cut and dried
The easy-going nature makes them a
reliable and steady sort
Virgo lovers are at their best when you allow them
to be of service to you
This could mean organising your file
cabinet or running all your errands
